Adjustable window-shade holder.



Patented Aug. [9, I902. F. D. HEWES & F. J. BITTNER.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE HOLDER.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1902.) No Model.)

INVENTOR Nrrnn dramas Pater FFICE.

FREMONT D. HEYVES AND FREDERICK J. BITTNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW-SHADE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,413, dated August 19, 1902.

Application filed April 19, 1902. Serial No. 103,700. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREMONT D. I-InWEs and FREDERICK J. BITTNER, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Window-Shade Holders,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to adjustable window-shade holders, and has for its object to provide a device of the class described which will possess points of ad vantage in sim plicity, inexpensiveness, convenience, effectiveness, and general efficiency.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the class described which can be easily adjusted and quickly attached to an ordinary shade-roller without regard to its pattern, length, or size by a person without skill, experience, instruction, or tools and without altering the structure of the adjacent parts of the window-frame.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the class described which can be instantly adjusted to the desired height, thereby admitting as much light as may be desired into the room without in any Way impairing the privacy of the persons in the apartment, and which will admit of, a free circulation of air from either the top or bottom of the window,while shading the other surface thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the class described which will prevent the window-shade from falling and also from unrolling,thereby losing its tension in the case of a spring-roller.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window with the window-shade partially lowered embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same looking from left to right and showing parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation looking from right to left and showing parts broken away.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an ordinary window frame. 2 designates the sashes sliding therein, and 3 a window-shade mounted upon a Hartshorne spring-roller 4, provided at one end with a round gudgeon 4 and at the other end with the usual rectangular gudgeon t, with the usual dogs and notches.

Our invention consists in means for receiving the gudgeons at the ends of the roller 4: and connecting means by which the supporting means may be adjusted to the length of the roller 4. and retained in a position at right angles to the axis of such roller 4 and adjusting means secured to the supporting means and adjustably mounted upon the windowframe, in the preferred form the supporting means embodying two plates 5, having, respectively, a round aperture 5 to receive the round gudgeone and rectangular apertn re 5 to receive the rectangular gudgeon 4 The plates 5 are also provided with apertures 5 directly opposite each other when the plates 5 are in operative position and positioned one above and one below the roller 4, when the shade 3 is rolled thereupon. The plate 5,having the round aperture, is provided near the top with another aperture 5, and the plate 5, having the rectangular opening 5",is provided with a projection 5 on its upper portion on the inner side at right angles to the main or body portion of said plate 5, and such projection 5 is provided near its outer end with an aperture 5 In assembling the parts the connecting means, consisting of a flexible member 6, is first secured in the lower aperture 5 in the plate 5, having the round aperture 5, and extended across beneath the roller 4 and through the lower aperture 5 in the plate 5, having the rectangular aperture 5", and then up along the outer face of said last plate 5 through the upper aperture 5 and across above the top of the roller 4: and through the upper aperture 5 in the first-mentioned plate 5 and up along the outside face of said lastnamed plate 5 and through the upper aperture 5 in said plate and then led to the upper part of the window-frame and through a pulley 7, secured therein. The adjusting means consist of the portion of the connecting means or flexible member 6, extending above the plate 5, provided with the round aperture 5, and another flexible member 8, secured in the aperture 5 in the projection 5 at the upper-portion of the plate 5, having the rectangular aperture 5, and extend ing to the upper part of the window-frame,

where it passes over apulley 9, secured therein, and across the upper part of the windowframe 1 to the pulley 7 and thence, with the other flexible member 6, down along the side of the window-frame 1 to a convenient point Within the reach of a person standing upon the floor of the room, where the two flexible members 6 and 8 are adapted to be secured upon the window-frame l in any suitable manner, herein shown as a cleat 10. The projection 5 on the plate 5, having the rectangular aperture 5 when the plates are in operative position is turned toward the window-frame 1 and serves when the shade is drawn down to come in contact with the window-frame l and prevent the roller 4 being turned sufficiently to permit the dogs to be placed in such a position as not to engage the notches when the shade 3 is rolled.

It is evident that the flexible members 6 and 8 may consist of simple cords, the former having its end knotted and then passing through the lower aperture 5 in the plate 5, having the rounded aperture 8, and then through the aperture 5 in the other plate 5 and back through the upper aperture 5 in the first-named plate 5 and through the aperture 5 in such plate and through the screweye secured in the upper part of the windowframe 1 or the bracket used ordinarily for supporting the roller 3, which screw-eye or bracket will perform the function of the pulley 7. The cord forming the flexible member 8 in the same Way may be knotted at one end and then passed through the aperture 5 in the second mentioned plate 5 and led through the screw-eye or bracket at the upper part of the window-frame.

It is evident that the means of reeving the flexible member 6 through the apertures in the plates 5 permit the adjustment of the plates 5 to any length of roller 3 and when so adjusted serve to hold the plates 5 at right angles to the axis of the roller 3 and to prevent the flexible member 6 from slipping in such apertures.

It is thus evident that our invention can be produced at small cost and attached to a window-shade roller of any length or size and applied to a window-frame by using ordinary window-shade brackets already in place or in case such do not exist by inserting simple screw-eyes in their places.

The operation and advantages of our invention will be readily understood and appreciated. A person without skill, experience, or instruction or without tools can attach it to any windowshade roller and windowframe, and when so attached it can be easily operated to raise or lower the roller 3, as desired, and when the roller 3 has reached the desired position the flexible members 6 and 8 are passed about the cleat 10, thereby retaining the roller 3 in such position. By this means the upper part of the window can be uncovered to admit light or when it is desired to lower the upper sash to admit air, and at the same time the lower part of the 7 window will be covered by the shade, so as to insure the privacy of the apartment and prevent a draft upon the persons therein. On the other hand, by raising the roller 3 the reverse effect can be accomplishedto wit,the lower part of the Window uncovered while the upper part remains covered.

WVe do not desire to be understood as limiting ourselves to the details of construction and arrangement as herein described and illustrated, as it is manifest that variations and modifications may be made in the features of construction and arrangement in the adaptation of the device to various conditions of use without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention and improvements. We therefore reserve the right to all such variation and modification as properly fall Within the scope of our invention and the terms of the following claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a device of the class described, a plate provided with a central round opening to receive a gudgeon at one end of a roller and with a perforation above and below said opening, a plate provided with a central rectangular opening to receive the rectangular gudgeon at the other end of the roller and with a perforation above and below such rectangular opening, aflexible member threaded through such perforations and retaining the plates in operative position, and adjustably mounted on the window-frame and a second flexible member secured to one of such plates and adjustably mounted upon the windowframe.

2. In a device of the class described, a plate provided with a central round opening to receive the gudgeon at one end of a roller and with a perforation above and below such opening, a plate provided with a central rectangular opening to receive the gudgeon at the other end of the roller and with a perforation above and below such opening and with a projection on the inner side of its upper portion, a cord secured at one end in the lower perforation of the first-mentioned plate and threaded through the perforations in the other plate and then through the upper perforation in the first-mentioned plate and secured near the upper end of said last-mentioned plate, a cord secured to said projection, and pulleys secured at the upper part of the window-frame to receive said cords.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

IIARTWELL P. HEATH, J. CLARK PYBAS. 

